The broadcast network morning and evening shows have so far failed to provide even a single second of coverage to an October 17 report from The Hill which revealed new details in the Clinton/Russia/Uranium scandal, including how the FBI had been investigating a Russian bribery plot months before the Obama administration approved a controversial uranium deal. In fact, the only broadcast coverage has been a paltry 69 seconds of discussion on CBS’s Face the Nation on October 22.
The networks’ blackout is all the more striking given the airtime those shows have already devoted this year to wacky conspiracy theories and urban legends, including the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, the Loch Ness monster, alien abductions, ghosts and even “lizard people.”
On March 14, for example, NBC’s Today 4 minute, 11 seconds looking for the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. In August, both ABC and CBS sent reporters to a small Kentucky town to look into decades-old tales of alien abduction.
Throwing skepticism to the wind, CBS and NBC spent nearly 15 minutes excitedly covering a (later debunked) History Channel expose about new developments in the Amelia Earhart mystery.
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